The SAGE handbook of online research methods

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Where to find it

Information & Library Science Library

Call Number
ZA4228 .S24 2008
Status
Available

Summary

This handbook is the first to provide comprehensive, up-to-the-minute coverage of contemporary and developing Internet and online social research methods, spanning both quantitative and qualitative research applications.

The editors have brought together leading names in the field of online research to give a thoroughly up to date, practical coverage, richly illustrated with examples. The chapters cover both methodological and procedural themes, offering readers a sophisticated treatment of the practice and uses of Internet and online research that is grounded in the principles of research methodology. Beginning with an examination of the significance of the Internet as a research medium, the book goes on to cover research design, data capture, online surveys, virtual ethnography, and the internet as an archival resource, and concludes by looking at potential directions for the future of Internet and online research.

The SAGE Handbook of Internet and Online Research Methods will be welcomed by anyone interested in the contemporary practice of computer-mediated research and scholarship. Postgraduates, researchers and methodologists from disciplines across the social sciences will find this an invaluable source of reference.

Contents

  • Section I The Internet as a research medium
  • Chapter 1 The Internet as a research medium: an editorial introduction to the Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods Ray Lee and Nigel Fielding and Grant Blank
  • Section II Designing Internet research
  • Chapter 2 The Ethics of Internet research Rebecca Eynon and Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
  • Chapter 3 Understanding and Managing Legal Issues in Internet Research Andrew Charlesworth
  • Chapter 4 Research design and tools for Internet research Claire Hewson and Dianna Laurent
  • Chapter 5 General approaches to data quality and Internet generated data Karsten Boye Rasmussen
  • Section III Data capture using the Internet
  • Chapter 6 Middleware for Distributed Data Management Alvaro A.A. Fernandes
  • Chapter 7 Distilling Digital Traces: Computational social science approaches to studying the Internet Ted Welser and Marc Smith and Danyel Fisher and Eric Gleave
  • Chapter 8 Analysing Social Networks via the Internet Bernie Hogan
  • Chapter 9 Nonreactive Data Collection on the Internet Dietmar Janetzko
  • Section IV The Internet survey
  • Chapter 10 Overview: online surveys Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
  • Chapter 11 Sampling methods for Web and E-mail Surveys Ronald Fricker
  • Chapter 12 Internet survey design Samuel Best and Brian Krueger
  • Chapter 13 Internet survey software tools Lars Kaczmirek
  • Section V Virtual ethnography
  • Chapter 14 Overview: Virtual ethnography: modes, varieties, affordances Christine Hine
  • Chapter 15 Internet-based Interviewing Henrietta O'Connor and Clare Madge and Robert Shaw and Jane Wellens
  • Chapter 16 Online focus groups Ted Gaiser
  • Chapter 17 Fieldnotes in public: using blogs for research Nina Wakeford and Kris Cohen
  • Chapter 18 Research Uses of Multi-user Virtual Environments Ralph Schroeder and Jeremy Bailenson
  • Chapter 19 Distributed Video Analysis in Social Research Jon Hindmarsh
  • Section VI The Internet as an archival resource
  • Chapter 20 The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis Keith Cole and Louise Corti and Jo Wathan
  • Chapter 21 Secondary Qualitative Analysis using Internet Resources Patrick Carmichael
  • Chapter 22 Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online David Martin and Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung
  • Chapter 23 Data Mining, Statistical Data Analysis, or Advanced Analytics: Methodology, Implementation, and Applied Techniques Bert Little and Michael Schucking
  • Chapter 24 Artificial Intelligence and the Internet Ed Brent
  • Section VII The future of social research on the Internet
  • Chapter 25 Longitudinal Statistical Modelling on the Grid Rob Crouchley and Rob Allan
  • Chapter 26 Qualitative e-Social Scienceber-research Nigel Fielding and Ray Lee
  • Chapter 27 New Cartographies of 'Knowing Capitalism' and the Changing Jurisdictions of Empirical Sociology Michael Hardey and Roger Burrows
  • Chapter 28 The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research Mike Fischer and Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn (Kent)
  • Chapter 29 Online Research Methods and Social Theory Grant Blank
  • Section VIII 
  • Glossary of Key Terms

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